With all this talk about flying, I must admit that I've never flown anywhere for holidays or business. In fact, the only time I've flown at all was on a light aircraft piloted by a friend who had a PPL, and that was from Speke airport when the old control tower and hangers were still in use!
As a family, we holidayed on our narrowboat and traversed the majority of the navigable canals in England. For a time, my mental map of the geography of England was skewed by an appreciation of how long it took to get to anywhere by canal...